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...Terkel didn't let people off the hook. In Division Street, a 19-year-old man who had left the hills of Kentucky for Chicago talks about his fear of living too close to blacks. "It doesn't bother me," he says, "as long as they stay on their side of the street." To which Terkel asks, "Suppose they're on the same side of the street?" You can almost hear the young man consider this for a moment before laughing at himself. "I imagine we might be able to be pious and get along pretty good," he replies. That...
...Sale. If the financial world seems topsy-turvy on this side of the world, maybe it will make more sense Down Under. Qantas, which now flies A380s on some routes, is offering round-trip fares between New York City and Sydney for $1,178, and between Los Angeles and Melbourne for $1,078. Book by Jan. 19, 2009, for high-season travel between Jan. 29 and April 30, 2009, or June 9 and Sept. 21, 2009. If you travel between May 1 and June 8, 2009, the start of the southern hemisphere's winter, fares drop about...
...West Side. In case you're planning to attend a convention next year at New York City's Javitz Center on the West Side, the Wyndham has just opened two Garden Hotels nearby, with high-tech "Smart Chairs" designed by Michael Graves in the lobby (the chairs have swiveling tables and built-in electrical outlets and Internet ports), anti-allergy guest rooms and organic breakfasts. At the Wyndham Garden Midtown Convention Center (341 West 36th Street), rates start at $179 per night; at the Wyndham Garden Chelsea (37 West 24th Street), rates start...
...pictures of China on the wild side...
...strikes that began Saturday, in which Palestinians claim at least 280 people have been killed, marked a dramatic escalation of the high-stakes poker game between Israel and Hamas. Over the past seven weeks, each side has calculated the odds of outbidding the other. Hamas - and the civilian population it represents - paid a heavy price in human casualties over the weekend, but it may nonetheless retain a strategic advantage. The radical Palestinian movement that governs Gaza appears to have underestimated Israel's readiness to launch a military campaign in response to an escalation of Palestinian rocket fire onto Israel...